semantic-coupling

A library to compute the semantic coupling between source code files (e.g. classes)

Participation

The library currently only supports source code written in Java and the English language. I am very happy to pull other sets of programming and natural languages into this library, just open a PR for them.

Usage

• Add this library to your own project: https://jitpack.io/#loehnertz/semantic-coupling/rc4
• If you are using Kotlin as well, just go ahead and instantiate the main class:

  val files: List<File> = retrieveFiles()
  val fileContentsMap: Map<String, String> = files.map { convertFileNameToIdentifier(it.absolutePath) to it.readText() }.toMap()  // A map of file name to raw file contents
  val semanticCouplingCalculator = SemanticCouplingCalculator(
      files = fileContentsMap,
      programmingLanguage = ProgrammingLanguage.JAVA,
      naturalLanguage = NaturalLanguage.EN
  )
  val semanticCouplings: List<SemanticCoupling> = semanticCouplingCalculator.calculate()
  

• If you are using Java, you can do pretty much the same:

  SemanticCouplingCalculator semanticCouplingCalculator = new SemanticCouplingCalculator(fileContentsMap, ProgrammingLanguage.JAVA, NaturalLanguage.EN);
  List<SemanticCoupling> semanticCouplings = semanticCouplingCalculator.calculate();
  

If you have any further questions, just open an issue or send me an e-mail.